Tsunade's head felt enormous now.
Staring at Danzo before her, the only left eye blazing with countless sparks of rage, the right eye gouged out — a bloodied hole.
Tsunade didn't know what to say. She just couldn't understand what Naruto was doing. Didn't he say he was going to expose the Fourth's secret? Why did he go and pull out Danzo's right eyeball???
And Naruto — how dare he? In the Hokage's office, in front of her, in front of the Hokage's senior staff, he just went and ripped Danzo's eyeball out! How was that any different from betraying Konoha?
Tsunade couldn't make sense of it. Someone who had always aimed at becoming Hokage — would he do something like this? Yet it was real and unfolding right in front of her.
Jiraiya didn't understand either. Kakashi didn't understand. Danzo understood even less!!!
If someone had told Danzo a while ago that Naruto would come into the Hokage's office and pull his eye out, Danzo would have thought the speaker mad. Even putting himself in someone else's shoes, Danzo couldn't imagine doing such a thing.
When he'd taken Shisui's eye years ago, he'd done it surrounded by underlings, in a very secret place — prepared to kill witnesses afterward. He had to be careful; after all, Danzo intended to stay in Konoha.
Now compare that to Naruto — he simply overturned the table.
Naruto exploited exactly that: he made Danzo drop all his guards, then suddenly struck — a sneak attack! That's how he succeeded.
Naruto looked at Danzo and snorted coldly. "Danzo-dono, how does it feel? Back when you took Uchiha Shisui's eye, did you ever imagine this day?"
Those words stopped everyone who had been about to attack Naruto. Eyes all turned to Danzo.
Especially Kakashi. He looked at Naruto. "Naruto! Are you saying that right eye is Uchiha Shisui's eye?"
Naruto nodded. "What, you think I'm joking? Why would I go to all this trouble otherwise."
He produced a small vial with growth medium and put the taken eyeball inside.
Shizune squinted at the vial in Naruto's hand. That — the liquid inside — she had helped prepare when Naruto had asked her not long ago. Back then he said he needed it to cultivate a summoning frog tadpole, so she'd mixed the special growth medium.
So Naruto had planned this even then.
Danzo, staring at his precious eye having been taken from him, hissed angrily, "That was given to me by Shisui! Don't slander me!"
Then he turned to Tsunade. "Tsunade — if you don't deal with Naruto, I will be forced to use the Root to handle him."
Naruto placed the vial down and sneered. "Don't worry, Lord Danzo."
With a faint whoosh, Naruto vanished from where he stood and reappeared behind Danzo.
"I'll be taking your right arm as well!"
Danzo turned in terror, but in that split second all he saw was a flash of cold light. Then, with another whoosh, Naruto was back in his original spot.
Earlier, when he'd removed the eye, Naruto had marked Danzo with the Flying Thunder God — just in case someone else tried to stop him from taking a second thing. He'd drawn everyone's attention outward so they'd all be watching him.
Danzo was last to notice and the slowest to react.
Kakashi watched Naruto's movements, dumbstruck. Classic Flying Thunder God, second stage! The trademark combat technique of his master — the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze — the most dazzling move of his repertoire.
Everyone stared at Danzo. He looked awful: his only left arm clutched at the gaping wound where the other had been, blood pouring; the hollow where his right eye had been was fresh and bloody. That lone left eye no longer burned with anger but with fear.
Kakashi immediately moved to Danzo's side to protect him.
Shizune stepped forward and began treating Danzo.
The Anbu bodyguards of the Hokage also gathered near Tsunade to protect her.
Mitokado Homura and Koharu — standing in the office — nearly had their hearts stop and backed away, afraid Naruto would turn on them next.
Jiraiya stared at Naruto, furious. "Naruto! Do you know what you're doing?!"
Naruto seemed not to hear and peeled back the bandages from Danzo's remaining arm. A forearm grafted with Hashirama cells, bound in metal seals, was exposed.
Tsunade's eyes narrowed. "The skin tone on that arm — it's the color of Hashirama's cells."
Jiraiya also looked at Danzo's arm. The metal wrapped around it was clearly sealing bands!
Why would Danzo need to seal down his forearm so tightly?
Naruto looked at Danzo and said, "Danzo-dono, you had so many Sharingan implanted into that forearm. Suppressing them must be difficult, right? Look how convenient — today I removed your problem."
Danzo forced his head up. Shivering from blood loss, he looked at Naruto and croaked, "You… who are you?!"
At this point even Danzo began to doubt Naruto's identity.
Jiraiya said sternly, "Naruto, do you understand what today's actions mean?"
Naruto inhaled deeply and exhaled. "I understand. But I had to do it."
Jiraiya frowned. He was afraid. Nagato had gone astray and now he only had this one disciple; he'd hoped Naruto would be a certain kind of savior. Now it looked like his path might be going awry too.
Tsunade spoke up. "Naruto, return Lord Danzo's arm and his eye. There's still room to discuss this matter."
Danzo spat through gritted teeth, "No! I want him dead!"
Naruto waved helplessly. "Grandma Tsunade, look — I'm helpless too."
Then he faced Danzo. "Danzo-dono, don't die. I won't take your life. I'll leave it for Sasuke to take. Your hands are stained with the blood of the Uchiha; dying by Sasuke's hand may unlock something in him."
With that, Naruto turned to use Flying Thunder God and leave.
Jiraiya called out in time, "Wait, Naruto! Tell your teacher — are you doing this to avenge the Uchiha and Sasuke? And where will you go next?"
Naruto looked at Jiraiya. "Teacher, what I've done has no hatred behind it. I only wanted what I needed from Danzo: Shisui's eye, the Uchiha's Sharingan. Nothing more. As for where I'm going, you needn't worry. I have plans — you'll hear my name soon enough."
Jiraiya's eyes narrowed and he ground his teeth. "So you're planning to defect from Konoha."
Naruto's face was expressionless. "No matter how Konoha treats me, I'm still Naruto Uzumaki."
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